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- Eastern Europe during the Cold War, 1945-1989
Course start date: Thu 16 Jan 2025Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sebastien ArdouinWhat led to the establishment of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe, how did they evolve, and why did they collapse? What was life like for citizens of the Eastern bloc?
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £168.00 - 17th England, Revolution and Restoration: these distracted times: the 1642–1651 civil wars Course start date: Thu 16 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ellen CarpenterJoin us for a ten-week course to discover the history of the 1642–1651 Civil Wars. From divided families to the breakdown of censorship and rise of propaganda, to innovations in warfare and medicine and the growth of religious sects and witchhunting, for the people who lived through the era, the Civil Wars really did make the world seem ‘turned upside down.'.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Living and dying in 14th century England Course start date: Fri 17 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vanessa KingWas it a poker or prayer that killed Edward II? His great-grandson, Richard II, produced the first English cookery book and yet he was also deposed and murdered. Were his recipes that bad?
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - German History: Sites of Memory ICourse start date: Fri 17 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rudolf MuhsThis course offers a broad sweep through centuries of German history by focusing on a selection of Sites of Memory which enjoy a special, but often shifting significance in the nation’s collective memory.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Post-war German history: 1945-1961 Course start date: Fri 17 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rudolf MuhsThis course offers a broad survey of German history from the end of the Second World War to the construction of the Berlin Wall at the height of the Cold war. - London's quartiers Course start date: Fri 17 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sue JacksonThrough 1 lecture and 7 guided walks, explore some of London’s quartiers – Soho, Mayfair, Covent Garden, Spitalfields, Clerkenwell, St James and Bloomsbury and understand how their very distinct characters were formed. The first session will be delivered via Zoom and other sessions will be guided walks.
London guide: Sue Jackson. - Ghetto uprising 1943: Jewish life and death in Warsaw Course start date: Sat 18 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David RosenbergIn April 1943, some 40,000 starving people were still incarcerated in terrible conditions within the Warsaw Ghetto. A few hundred among them – predominantly young people – led an armed rebellion against the Nazis. This course conveys the incredible story of their uprising but also reveals the background of Warsaw's vibrant but increasingly endangered Jewish life in the decades before the uprising. It describes the many forms of resistance that took place after the Nazi invasion, highlights key individuals who played a role, and provides an opportunity to reflects on different aspects of this tragic but inspiring episode during the Holocaust. - Terrific Tudors: Act two The life and times of Henry VIII's children Course start date: Mon 20 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vanessa KingWas Edward VI a religious prig? Does Mary deserve her bad reputation? What should we make of Elizabeth as ‘the virgin queen’? If Henry Fitzroy had lived could he have become king?Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Key figures in Black British History – 1700-1900Course start date: Mon 20 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join a journey of the examination of the rich historical presence and contribution of the Black African and Caribbean Diaspora in Britain, from the 1700s to 1900 with an emphasis on key historic and influential black figures.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Global Encounters: The Early Crusades 1095-1204 Course start date: Tue 21 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vanessa KingWe chart the fortunes of the first four crusades and the rise and fall of the kingdom of Jerusalem using Christian and Muslim sources. Why did these events occur and what were the consequences?
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Blood, Guts & Gore: How Human Emissions, Fluids & Excretions shaped ideas & societies Course start date: Tue 21 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Linsey HunterThis course takes an alternate view of history, exploring the past from the perspective of the substances removed, expelled or eliminated from the body as waste products, demonstrating their economic, environmental or symbolic value.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00 - Britain and European integration: from aftermath of World War 2 to Brexit Course start date: Wed 22 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alexandre DabThis course examines Britain's complex history with European integration from the end of the Second World War to Brexit.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Seventy years in the Soviet grip: the experience of the people of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia within the USSRCourse start date: Thu 23 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: David RowsonJoin us to explore the long period during which the different nations of the South Caucasus were part of the Soviet Union, starting with their annexation and ending with the break-up of the Soviet state seventy years later, which resulted in renewed independence for the three republics. This experience was at different times revolutionary, traumatic, stultifying and nation-shaping.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Norman and Plantagenet London 1000-1350 Course start date: Mon 27 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vanessa KingWe chart the impact of the Norman Conquest on the development of London and end by exploring how Londoners reacted to the Black Death with killed 50% of the inhabitants. There will also be a guided walk. - Global encounters between Europe, Japan, India, and China 1500-1700Course start date: Tue 28 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vanessa KingWas it Gold, God or Glory that motivated expansion beyond Europe between 1500 and 1700? Using eye-witness accounts we explore the impact of cross-cultural encounters between the West and east Asia before the Age of Colonialism.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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